I’ll get right back to you with that when you deliver the business plan.
For the record, I love Twitter. I use it everyday, and the community I’m in is the polar opposite of everything Twitter gets a bad rap for. It’s supportive, inclusive and no one says a bad thing about anyone.
It honestly breaks my heart that the business isn’t thriving.
But it’s openness is it’s strength and it’s weakness. Disney won’t touch a business with Twitters toxic reputation with a forty foot pole.
Clearly, the executive will in the company to deliver a return on investment isn’t cutting it.
If they can’t get it together, the buyer will probably end up being some kind of Wall Street hatchet business, who at best will cut jobs and make it profitable, and at worst strip it for parts.
Yes, the normal response when someone asks you to justify your blue skying with actual numbers and details is to make them do it first. Does this conversational gambit often work? You’re the one asserting that “they just do this thing because of reasons.” I called you on it and your response is to ask me to do the same thing. Cool.
Clearly because they’re bloated and should fire everyone so it makes money, right?
I’m always amazed at these pieces on Boing Boing where Cory or someone posts something about a company doing a lay off or having a hard time and then it is a 50+ thread pile on of people shitting on the company and feeling good about it. Definitely a directory of wonderful things.
Well, you did call for human beings, real ones, that some of us actually know, to just be fired because clearly their employer is run by jerks and they don’t need or want jobs. Hell, you gotta break a few eggs and all that, amirite?
Next time I have lunch with an engineer on their security team, I’ll ask them if anyone has called for them to be fired that day as bloat.
Yeah, I’m on Twitter too much, and get a great deal of news and fun from it. I do keep a fairly active block list - there are some folk I never want to hear from. I’m just a small user, maybe 150 followers. I think I follow about 700 people. I hope Twitter finds a way to stay viable. I’d pay to keep it, but some folk would find that a burden. and I doubt that any amount of user fees could satisfy the VCs.
I’ve seen a few observations about how Vine was apparently overwhelmingly used by young POC who are now losing their space because of Twitter’s disinterest in fixing its abuse problems.
Good read, led me down a few google searches and now I know that Gab - the twitter alternative created for the alt right kicked from twitter and facebook - has more curation tools than Twitter.
That’s all you need to know. The company whose logo is based on Pepe himself funded by a Trump fan has better self moderation than Twitter.
